Approaching the West — Page 160
A pproaching the West—160 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-40) Unfortunately, the New Testament writers introduced Trinity in Christianity and thus compromised the first commandment concerning the Unity of God. Jesus himself was raised to the status of God, a joint partaker of the same Divine nature with Him. The Holy Qur’ ā n expands both categories of commandments. For man’s spiritual enhancement it provides guidance in detail about obligations toward God ( Ḥ uq ū qull ā h), and firmly establishes the Unity of God providing convincing arguments against the concept of Trinity and all forms of polytheism. For man’s moral interaction with others, it establishes a comprehensive and realistic system of regulations dealing with man’s obligations toward others ( Ḥ uq ū q-ul-‘ib ā d). The Holy Qur’ ā n not only reinforces the Ten Commandments given to Moses and the Children of Israel, it improves upon them for better implementation on a universal scale, and corrects the mistaken attitude of Christianity on both the fronts. To Moses, God proclaimed the first commandment in the following words, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of